Orange County's DA office has maintained a DNA database since 2007 and selectively offered plea deals or misdemeanor dismissals if suspects provided DNA samples (Jordan Smith/The Intercept)

Jordan Smith / The Intercept:
Orange County's DA office has maintained a DNA database since 2007 and selectively offered plea deals or misdemeanor dismissals if suspects provided DNA samples  —  William Thompson, a professor emeritus of criminology and law at the University of California, Irvine, lives in University Hills …